Segmentation fault during build configuration

[Markus Elfring]

I have retrieved your current software from the subversion repository.

elfring@Sonne:~/Projekte/VirtualBox/trunk> svn update
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Hole externen Verweis nach »kBuild«
Externer Verweis aktualisiert zu Revision 2360.


Hole externen Verweis nach »src/libs/kStuff/kStuff«
Externer Verweis aktualisiert zu Revision 33.

Aktualisiert zu Revision 30908.
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elfring@Sonne:~/Projekte/VirtualBox/trunk> ./configure
Checking for environment: Determined build machine: linux.amd64, target machine: linux.amd64, OK.
Checking for kBuild: found, OK.
Checking for gcc: found version 4.4.2, OK.
Checking for as86: found version 0.16.17, OK.
Checking for bcc: found version 0.16.17, OK.
Checking for iasl: found version 20100304, OK.
Checking for xslt: found, OK.
Checking for pthread: found, OK.
Checking for libxml2: found version 2.7.7, OK.
Checking for libxslt: found version 1.1.24, OK.
Checking for libIDL: found version 0.8.14, OK.
Checking for ssl: found version OpenSSL 1.0.0 29 Mar 2010, OK.
Checking for libcurl: found version 7.20.1, OK.
Checking for zlib: found version 1.2.3, OK.
Checking for libpng: found version 1.2.39, OK.
Checking for SDL: found version 1.2.14, OK.
Checking for X libraries: found, OK.
Checking for Xcursor: found, OK.
Checking for Xinerama: found, OK.
Checking for Xrandr: found, OK.
Checking for Xmu: found, OK.
Checking for Mesa / GLU: ./configure: line 284:  6856 Segmentation fault      $ODIR.tmp_out > $ODIR.test_execute.log

How can this configuration error be resolved on my openSUSE system?

[Frank Mehnert]

Pass the --passive-mesa parameter to configure.

[Markus Elfring]

Replying to frank:

Would you like to support build configuration without passing the parameter "passive-mesa"?

[Frank Mehnert]

That parameter is normally not needed, only on dedicated hosts where the test application in configure crashes. My assumption is that these crashes come from buggy host drivers.

[Markus Elfring]

Does the test application contain open issues?

[Frank Mehnert]

Why don't you check this yourself? Just have a look at the configure script, it is very easy to understand.

[Markus Elfring]

I have tried a few more updates. - I can not trigger the segmentation fault again now.

It was surprising that the execution of the script function "check_mesa" showed unexpected behaviour.